Today’s Wall Street Journal story on how the entertainment industry is treating Election Day as “another retail holiday, when adults are sprung from work and kids are out of school–and presumably in stores” is full of cringeworthy moments–for starters, we have Brad Paisley calling his current tour The Paisley Party, which I thought was a weird Prince reference but is actually some “funny” political “joke” that I guess will mobilize all the graphic design-challenged types out there. But perhaps the best evidence that Fall Out Boy’s decision to move the release of Folie A Deux from Nov. 4 to mid-December was a smart one comes from the excruciating Oklahoman butt-rockers Hinder.
The rock band Hinder, which had one of the top selling albums of 2006, outfitted Playboy models with stars-and-stripes bikinis and “Vote for Hinder!” signs to promote its boisterous new album.
Here is a picture of that classy, classy promotion, taken from the front page of Hinder’s official site.
It’s really too bad that this young lady, in addition to having some sort of irritation that is making her lips purse in a “where’s the Vagisil” kind of way, doesn’t have any apparent musical talent, isn’t it. Just think–if she could even swat at a tambourine in time, she could get Hinder a little more real estate on the cover of Blender!
Hitting The Polls, Then The Mall [WSJ]
Arcadia - Election Day [YouTube]
I love Arcadia more than life itself (and have the tattoo to prove it).
@Ned Raggett: Actually, I’m pretty sure that Federal law requires that your employer give you time off to vote. Well not technically “time off” per se, but must allow you to show up late or leave early (without punishment) to get to the polls.
I should also note that I don’t have Election Day off. Do you?
We’re given time off to vote if needed, but not the full day.
Nope, I can use vacation time if I want. I’m going to see if I can get to the polls before work, since they open at 6 ’round here, and I’m busy on Tuesdays after work.
I don’t know anybody who gets it off, not without using their personal time. Is the music industry that out of touch? I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess.
I wish Election Day were on a Sunday, when a lot of people either have off or are able to get off work during voting hours. Maybe my mind has become fried since high school (and I’m not even a pothead), but whose idea was it to put it on a Tuesday? That just seems random.
@I’m Crushing Your Head: I’m not 100% sure this is correct, but if I recall, its on a Tuesday because, when the US was primarily an agrarian society, that’s when most farmers would “go to market” and thus already be in town to vote. I agree that it should be on the weekend, but doubt that Sunday would ever get approved because that’s the Sabbath for so many religions. And Saturday’s the Sabbath for most of the others. I think a two-day, weekend-long election is probably the best compromise, and could actually see that happening soon, as long as it would not require a Constitutional Amendment (I can’t remember), in which case all bets are off.
Can you believe Oklahoma City has produced Color Me Badd, the Flaming Lips, and Hinder? How weird is that?